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>> i'm looking at her and i'm like, man, she can be anything that she wants to be. and as soon as i said it to myself, i'm like, oh, man, can we afford to put her through college. >> reporter: because black students arrive on campus with less wealth than white peers, they tend to take out more and bigger loans for the same degrees and they will owe about $7400 more than their white counterparts at graduation. it is one reason jonah founded an organization that mobilizes black students especially on hbcu campuses around pivotal issues like canceling student loan debt. >> specifically for black ...

I think that the police perceived this threat because people are telling them they cannot continue to do business as usual. and that is threatening to them. and one of the things that we really need to understand when we talk about what's happening with african-americans, that it's happening with impunity. police are doing it so frequently because there are no consequences. again, if there were consequence, they would stop. to put this in a larger historical context, this notion of african-americans as threatening goes way back through african-american history. >> uh-huh. >> after african-amer...

Empire. dr. king at a certain point actually started to reach out to farm workers because he realized that the same hands, right, that are now picking the crops and feeding the country in the southwest, it's the equivalent of what african-americans were dealing with share cropping in the south, these were one and the same issue. when you have latinos voting at less than 40% in the state of texas, is there any chance of creating the political momentum is even possible? you have an undervote of 60 persz? >> yes, but one reason latinos particularly in texas have voted at low levels is part becaus...

Water horizon oil spill. after more than a century of relying on oyster fishing as a food source and a driver of the local economy, the fishermen are left facing a cultural and economic losses. the film follows one member of that community as they have their fight for justice and accountability from b.p. and the government. >> these people have suffered enough. we can't let b.p. use delay tactics to deny justice. i've been on these waters since i was a child. i have never in my life saw anything so devastating as what's out there now. nothing. it has taken us generations to come from share cro...

System. we'll have you provide all the labor and we'll reap the profits. i don't want to overstate it, but is this basically a contemporary system of share cropping that the students find themselves in, mr. branch? >> yes. one day we'll wake up and kick ourselves and say how can we be so brainwashed and not recognize this. you can't manage conflict between academics and big-time sports unless you recognize the conflicts exist. right now we prethaend big-time athletics and education are the same thing and only the ncaa understands how to manage this hypothetical creature called the student athl...